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GdS: Conceicao’s impact ‘barely seen’ as Milan remain ‘disorganised’ and ‘ugly’

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The defeat against Dinamo Zagreb highlighted an ugly reality for AC Milan – there has not been much change since Paulo Fonseca’s departure.

When one Portuguese replaced the other, there were immense amounts of hope placed on the immediate advancement of Milan. Instead, though, nothing much has changed. What is more worrying is that Sergio Conceicao already seems tired of the situation.

As Gazzetta dello Sport write (via Milan Press), the Rossoneri were ‘disorganised, ugly, who went down and, left with 10, risked being doubled several times, drew and then conceded the final 2-1’. In other words, the performance was anything but what was required.

At 1-0 down, there was still hope that the Diavolo could earn a comeback, just due to hope of following the Conceicao pattern, but on this occasion, the head coach could not conjure another miracle.

This highlights a huge issue with the squad. Mentally, there is something lacking. Consistency has been the word all year, and under Conceicao, nothing has changed in that regard.

In fact, the paper writes ‘apart from the Super Cup (certainly a merit, even if it came thanks to several favourable circumstances) and apart from rants, catchphrases, half-fights, from the point of view of the game and organisation, the Portuguese’s hand is little seen’.

Of course, an immediate change in fortune was unlikely. However, the lack of progress is worrying and it may suggest why there are so many players being linked to moves away today. A revolution is needed.

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27 Comments

  1. How is it barely seen? His impact is very visible. He came & stirred up the nest of these lazy ass turds.

    Unlike Fonseca, he openly criticizes, which is a good thing, as it brings attention to the issues in front of the public & that forces the incompetent management to somehow react.

    Maybe because of him Milan would finally get rid of the deadwood, which is 2/3 of the team.

    1. There is absolutely no impact.
      Fonseca was publicly criticizing players for not doing their jobs, but when Fonseca did it, that was a bad thing, while under Conceição is a good thing.
      Fonseca was benching and subbing the lazy players, Leao, Theo, Tomori. Conceição is doing the same thing.
      Fonseca isn’t a top coach but he wasn’t the problem, nor is the problem Conceição now.
      I agree with your last sentence about getting rid of the deadwood, but I think it’s 3/4 of the team, not only 2/3.

      1. You can criticize with a stone wall, no emotion Fonseca’s face, or with an angry, passionate Conceicao face. That is not the same thing.

        I like Conceicao’s way more.

        1. What difference does it make how the message is relayed to the players when the players aren’t responding, or capable of responding to the message?
          Different approach, same result.

          1. With these players? There will be no difference.

            After all, we will see at the end of the season. After that, Conceicao needs be given time to fill the team with the players he sees fit and explain them who they are signed for during the whole pre-season.

      2. I dont think we have that much of deadwood, they won scudetto in 2022, we outplayed madrid at barnebeu with this squad, the problem is management team, and the owner, we had maldini with massara who knows italian football very well, yet gerry sacked them instead and confident with so called money ball with furlani, look at napoli now under conte, they can deliver result. Bring back paolo and bring the arabs too.

      3. “In Italy, there’s a saying that when something doesn’t work in a company, ‘the fish rots from the head.’ If we use this for Milan, the problem isn’t just the coach or the players (although they’re part of it), but mainly an absent management. They’re not only missing in action physically, but also professionally. These days, Milan is run by university geniuses with a ton of master’s degrees in finance and economics, but they have zero connection to the professional sports and football world

  2. TOMORI, OKAFOR, CALABRIA, ABRAHAM, MUSAH, BENNACER, MORATA AND maybe Theo if he does not get back to work !! Otherwise Cardinale will go down and sell the club without Profit.

    1. A LOS JUGADORES (EXCLUYENTE A PAVLOVIK) SON EL PROBLEMA… NADA DE ACTITUD, HORRORES EN DEFENSA, ESTUPIDECES COMO LA DE AYER, FALTA DE DEFINICIÓN Y LO QUE SI TIENE CONCEICAO Y LE FALTAN A TODOS ESOS…. LUCHA!!!

    1. How so? If you take away the supercup, which is meaningless aside from the 9M euros the winner gets from the sports washing Saudis, his record is 3-1-2, between the Serie A and CL. His PPM (points per match) is 1.6. Fonseca was 11-6-6 between Serie A and CL, for a PPM of 1.8. The results are technically worse. The only think propping Conceicao up at the moment is the aforementioned relatively meaningless supercup, in which we had to come back twice after dismal first halves in each game. Oh, and we’ve had to have these comebacks constantly. Instead under Fonseca we would take a 1-0 lead and then drop points.

      Gabbia, Fofana, Reijnders and Pulisic, all of whom were doing really well against Fonseca, are now playing poorly, joining the consistently poor Theo, Leao, RBs, and strikers.

      1. Ok, so we consider only games that suit our calculation? Apart from the fact that supercoppa opponents were actually relatively stronger.

        1. Sure no problem. Let me respond to this more fully for your benefit. Without “considering only games that suit my calculation” (which was just two games in arguably the least important competition Milan participates in), Fonseca coached a total 24 games in which he went 12-6-6 for a PPM of 1.75. Conceicao has coached a total of 8 games for a record of 5-1-2 and a PPM of 2.00.

          Ultimately, this is down to sample size. Conceicao’s 8 games vs. Fonseca’s 24. We should wait until Conceicao has 24 games to truly compare. That being said, just to add some color, if Conceicao losses the derby, which is a real possibility, his record drops to 5-1-3 and his PPM will be 1.78. That’s only .03 better than Fonseca.

          So yeah, I guess to some it might seem like we’re a world class team now under Conceicao, since we won two supercoppa matches and got some kind of a trophy, but he’s also one loss away from being only .03 PPM better than Fonseca. Again, maybe best to check after 24 games. Regardless, my point is that things ARE NOT that much better under Conceicao at the moment, and I think most would agree. Unless you think that the supercoppa is more important the the scudetto/top 4 and a deep run in the CL. But hey, if that’s what you fancy, it’s your choice.

          1. Man it is nice to see a well reasoned analysis like this.

            Even if I don’t like what that math says.

            Thanks Vero.

      2. Supercup is not irrelevant. 5-1-2 is respectable especially considering how many comeback victories we had. Under Fonzy we would have lost each game.

        1. Or we wouldn’t have fallen behind at all. You do know under Fonseca we had already beaten Inter in a much more impressive fashion. We actually outplayed them and didn’t need to come from 2 goals down to do it. This coming from behind argument is not a very good one, because if the team had a good gameplan from the start we would not fall behind in every single match we play.

  3. Italian papers are full of sh. If we win the derby he will be praised for how much he changed the team in so little time. I mean they basically just print two articles all season long. One exaggeration of misery following a loss and one overhype of brilliance after a win.

    1. I mean they can write whatever they want but shortages are evident. We were hyped after Super Cup because he just came and won a trophy. Players seem to click with him immediately. But now it’s same ol’ sh*t. So a win against Inter is of course welcome and much needed but it won’t change the fact this team’s problems are deeply rooted. And it starts with the ownership.

  4. So what, shall we keep binning off managers till we find one that somehow clicks with this shower of misfits? Might be a long and costly wait, that.

  5. I don’t think it’s a problem of players all of a sudden in 6months team became like this.
    There should be more to that, firstly we have better team last year than this year, better team 2years before than last year.
    Team is going down and all experienced player’s left, suddenly there’s problem of leadership and everything.
    Theo is only captain for the match, not for pushing player’s nor even Calabria.
    Mike is kind of but not sure everyone listens to him and now with the statements from the management coming out they are more demotivated than motivated.

  6. We Have Pobega (DM) , Saelemakers ( RW), Daniel Maldini (AM), Adli (AM), Kalulu (CB) and Youth Italians National Team ini Milan Futuro. Call them and make a team. Not make product to sale.

  7. The problem is that the trainer has no enough players of quality on bench to replace someone in the starting XI. After Diaz a 10 top-quality doesn’t exist anymore. The idea is not to bring too many players to the team but one or two that can make difference

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